upcoming events and calls for support
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Dear Friends of SJS,
Check out the great upcoming events and worthy initiatives:
Also please join us this evening for Yonatan Shapira's talk at 7 p.m. in DSB C118.
OPEN HOUSE
開 放 日
問卷調查: 長者居屋及日常服務之需求
SENIORS SERVICES AND HOUSING NEEDS
IN VICTORIA’S CHINATOWN
Sunday November 15, 2015, 3-5pm
Ambrosia Centre, 638 Fisgard Street, Victoria
十一月十五日，星期日，下午三時至五時
安布思雅會堂,638 菲斯格街
Please join us to learn about draft research findings of the Victoria Chinatown Seniors Affordable Housing and Services Needs Assessment,
and share your thoughts.
Everyone is welcome.
誠意邀請大家到来跟我們一起分享和討論問卷調查結果。
人人都歡迎 ！
For more information, contact:
Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon
Engagement Coordinator, M.Thomson Consulting
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 604-616-0662.
The People's Spark: Igniting Climate Action at COP21
This
December, leaders of the world will meet in Paris during COP21 to reach a
global agreement for action on climate change. We – the people – have greater
diversity and motivation to make a change as those with the decision-making
power. So let’s help them out with addressing this important issue. On November
29th, the day before COP21 begins, we will come together to put pressure on our
leaders and show them that the peoples’ opinions, and needs, matter.
We are grateful to organize this event on
unceded Lekwungen and WSANEC territories.
Check out our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/177541979251776/
or also this event is part of a world wide movement, to read more, go to: https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any questions or want to get more involved with the lead up!
YOU are invited to join a collective, creative,
non-violent direct action at 12:00am at the Inner Harbor in Downtown Victoria.
We will each carry a red cardboard flame, forming a moving,
shifting inferno of human beings; together shining a light on the issue of
climate change. Leading up to the event we will be having
“flame-building-workshops” (the next one : Saturday 14th of November,
spread the word via this event : https://www.facebook.com/events/1487456431556911/) and we
encourage people to think about the following question:
“What do you see as the solution(s) to climate
change?”
These answers will be written on the other side
of our bright flames, and we will be inspired by all our different world-views
and solutions, and maybe even start conversations about what we can do as a
group and as individuals now and in the time after COP21.
The question of climate change is big and
complex, and this can make it difficult, and even depressing to think about,
but you are not alone. This is our chance to come together, and start
decreasing the gap between the world we have and the world we want.
We are the ones we have been waiting for, let us
work together and ignite the movement!
- What: Creative action
- Where: Inner Harbour
- When: November 29th at 12:00am
- What To Bring: Cardboard flame. If you do not
have your own, we have one for you (come before 12:00am to write your solution
statement)
- Wear: Orange, red, and yellow clothes if
possible
Paris Climate Change Petition to Justin Trudeau
Please consider signing a petition asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take a bold stand at the upcoming Paris Climate Change Summit ("COP21").
Link to petition: http://you.leadnow.ca/p/paris
Thank you
Simon
MOSQOY SEEKS SUPPORT FOR QUECHUA STUDENTS TO STUDY AT UVIC
Mosqoy is seeking financial support to help two indigenous Quechua students from Peru to become students at UVic this Spring 2016.
Mosqoy is sponsoring Adrian Jimenez Suma and Lisbeth Monica Chavez Monge to come to our campus to study English. They will have the opportunity to act as cultural ambassadors for their weaving communities back home, and will be presenting in a variety of schools and organizations across B.C. For example, in collaboration with local indigenous bands and the Langley Fine Arts School, we are inviting indigenous youth and students from all over Canada, Kenya, and our two students from Peru, for a weekend-long youth summit on the West Coast.
This program offers a powerful educational experience for our Quechua youth, and the exchange brings such potential to inspire social and environmental justice at home and abroad. Our fundraising goal to meet all their needs during their stay is $10,000.
More information is available on the Mosqoy website at http://mosqoy.org/get-involved/sponsor/ or by contacting Rosa McBee, Global Stewardship Program Manager, Mosqoy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Margo MatwychukDirector
Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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